Overzealous modding again.

junkyard

Junkyard – Member

who mentioned me cant see anything

Happy Days

i was joking you are no where near the level of banning. You need to be [imho]right wing , nuts , homophobic, sexist …oh hold on 😀
We just seem to disagree and I have no issue with that tbh.

Have you ever been banned TeeJ?

I’d love to know who people have on their own ‘banned’ lists.

Proper fascinating that.

I wonder if some of the mods take Fred’s posts and post-banning correspondence personally, and therefore have a ‘hair-trigger’ attitude to topics that, if stated by other folk on here, would be judged as acceptable?

There are plenty of bully-boys on here who’s behaviour is far worse than that of Fred. Even Mark to an extent. I know that from correspondence during my ban.

why anti blocking? Dont you know people in the real world you cross the road to avoid talking to them. Same thing though i only have two folk on my list.

I’ve had Staffies, I’m well used to uninformed people crossing the road.

I don’t think that was anything to do with Tala ds 😀

bullheart – of course they do. Didn’t he send them loads of strange star wars themed messages when ‘Rudeboy’ was made no more?
Kind of funny but a total PITA if they were filling your inbox. If you have previous you have to expect to be dealt with more swiftly… it’s almost blindingly obvious to me.

There is a lot of twaddle on this forum.

I’m beginning to wonder if some of the ‘people’ on here are actually bots developed by some university research department investigating artificial intelligence.

Not bad.

I got banned for a week for calling Tony Blair a see you next Tuesday. Which I thought was fair comment and my honest opinion.

I just checked with Barney for an opinion.

😀

i’ve been banned twice for being a ****.

Ok, I just cannot imagine being that bothered about another poster. I dont cross the road to avoid people either so maybe it’s an extension of that. Interesting though. I’ve never really considered blanking people out, seems a bit weak if I’m honest. Is it a control thing? Sorry if this sounds rude.

My first ever ban was for calling someone (not another user) a See Next Tuesday You 😀

I don’t think that was anything to do with TKala ds

🙄
No, but it’s the same thing, no?

My god, this thread is still stumbling on then :s

deadlydarcy – Member

Have you ever been banned TeeJ?

Yes – a couple of years ago I told an extremely offensive joke late at night when pissed. I forgot he difference between chattig with your mates in a corner of the bar and standing on the bar shouting

In 9 words it is offensive to disabled Christians and jews. got a week for that and probably fair enough. However I have seen the same joke on here unmodded another day – presumably no one reported it.

its a funny joke

Oops…y’know, I knew there was something wrong as soon as I wrote that. Sorry dude. 😳

I’d say they possibly weren’t as uninformed as you think. 🙂

I think the blocking plug-in is ace. Wont tell you who I have blocked but it’s helping my blood pressure. Can it be made integral to the forum?

yossarian – Member

Ok, I just cannot imagine being that bothered about another poster. I dont cross the road to avoid people either so maybe it’s an extension of that. Interesting though. I’ve never really considered blanking people out, seems a bit weak if I’m honest. Is it a control thing? Sorry if this sounds rude.

I do it with a few posters to stop me from seeing their posts and reacting to them. Its to assist my poor self control.

GWs post so inoffensive that it is still on the thread unedited

Yeah – thanks for pointing it out – very amusing IMHO. Well done for getting it removed by constantly pointing out the inconsistency 😈

you’re not a member unless you have had at least a warning banning

FTFY

I’ve been banned for – actually I think mentioning what for would get me banned again – and managed to successfully argue with Mark and get myself unbanned when I thought I was likely just arguing myself into a longer ban.

@TeeJ, Yeah, I know the feeling. Having one’s post reported and seeing something almost identical written down somewhere else. Pita.

Is it a control thing? Sorry if this sounds rude.

adds to list 😀
No idea,not really given it much thought. I just have no interest in anything they have to say.

Junkyard, you’ve reported me a number of times haven’t you?

Having one’s post reported and seeing something almost identical written down somewhere else. Pita.

Which just emphasises the other point in Mark’s post – they can’t read everything on here. If you’ve got a problem with somebody else posting something you got banned for, the solution is simple – a nice clicky at the bottom of each post. Personally I’m not that childish.

On that the dumped thread there are several posts that appear to me to be more offensive than GWs. His might have been worth modding – in dubious taste but others were worse imo

I struggle with long sentences but I would just like to leap to the defence of the mods. *leaps*

I help moderate a couple of high-traffic, moderately well-known messageboards and sites elsewhere on the interwebs, and it’s a pretty thankless task sometimes. You can’t follow every last conversation, or chase up every last infraction of the rules, or interpret them all perfectly every time. When there’s more than one mod, the difference in attitude or sensitivities between each mod will make inconsistency inevitable. One mod will let something slide where another would stomp on it hard. Sometimes mistakes or misjudgements are made. Mods aren’t perfect, they’re humans just like you, and they’re usually trying to moderate vast quantities of inane chatter at the same time as doing their actual proper day-jobs.

If they weren’t doing their thing the place you like chattering on would be full of spambots and trolls and godknowswhat. Cut them some slack. You could maybe even make their lives less difficult by accepting that they’re not perfect and, well, try not to annoy them?

Right, flame away… 🙂

No worries dd. 😀

buzz-lightyear – Member

I think the blocking plug-in is ace. Wont tell you who I have blocked but it’s helping my blood pressure. Can it be made integral to the forum?
Are you telling me that you need software to help you make decisions and you can’t work it out for yourself?

On that the dumped thread there are several posts that appear to me to be more offensive than GWs. His might have been worth modding – in dubious taste but others were worse imo

In a totally unbiased and impartial way.

On that the dumped thread there are several posts that appear to me to be more offensive than GWs.

So report them if you’ve got a problem. The inconsistency is of the users’ making, not the mods’.

Personally I’m not that childish.

Thanks for the advice, but nor am I.

that blocking thing’d be great, you could block out all the boring gits like myself that don’t serve any purpose on here. can you block yourself? I’ve even e-mithered STW to delete my account cos I was narked about someone modding my drunken ramblings (paulosoxo?) and they didn’t even bother replying! what a no-mark! (see what I did there)

Is having a ban a bit of a right of passage? All so tiresome really which is a shame as when the usual suspects are not acting like kids they contribute a great deal, just let themselves down in situations like this.

Really don’t see the point of the blocking add-on. In order to avoid getting dragged into pointless debate I’d have to block TJ, edu and ernie – which would just mean I’d also miss most of the useful stuff on here. Everybody else I can quite happily just scroll over their posts (apologies to anybody I’m ignoring without even using software).

Isn’t it weird reading threads if that persons contribution is blocked? Must make some threads really hard to follow.

<takes deep breath>

Would it not be better to train yourself to ignore the individual rather than block them out? Good practice for the real world and all that. Probably better for your blood pressure too.

Maybe it’s me, I think I’ve clearly underestimated the importance that people put on their internet stability and contentment. I dont mind being wrong, it’s just a bit surprising.

Mint – fair comment and good on them for letting this run.

I can deal with things getting missed – I know its reactively moderated so only if reported does it come to the attention of the mods.

What I find hard to take it the way that some nasty prejudiced posts are allowed to stand despite reporting from posters with plenty of previous and other posters get banned with no warning for something much less offensive

OMgosh. people letting themselves down on a cycling forum! 🙄 I bet they even fall off their bikes and all! what failures.

GW getting a ban for that comment is nuts frankly. Pretty inoffensive and worse goes by all the time with no note. Presumably gets a little less slack since he’s such a fiery ball of trollish rage some of the time, but that doesn’t justify it. If it was for the language, there’s worse in this thread! If it was for the tone/anecdote, there’s worse everywhere.

Being a mod’s a thankless task- thanks mods- but whenever I’ve screwed it up, people have let me know and I’ve tried to learn from it. It happens. A forum’s not a democracy and it’s entirely right that the mods get to be dictators, but at the same time the forum’s here for a reason and if the mods lose track of that, that’s a problem for the health of the site.

All IMO of course 😉

What I find hard to take it the way that some nasty prejudiced posts are allowed to stand despite reporting from posters with plenty of previous and other posters get banned with no warning for something much less offensive

*sniggers quietly at the back of the class*

I agree GW didn’t deserve a ban for his post (was pretty funny, and a shame the forum rules don’t allow that), but that’s just my opinion, and taking no account of anything else he might have posted and how many warnings he’s had.

Junkyard, you’ve reported me a number of times haven’t you?

apparently not, but my excel spreadsheet says you have upset me three times and one of those was deeply.
I have to add I dont have a spreadsheet for fear someone may not see this as humour [ I do, did i get away with it?].